Oreste Carboni

Oreste Carboni (11 January 1893-29 November 1942) was a Brigadier-General of the Royal Italian Army during World War II.

Biography
Oreste Carboni was born on 11 January 1893 in Cremona, Italy, and he graduated from the Modena Military Academy in 1915, the same year as the start of World War I for Italy. As a Lieutenant, Carboni fought on the Piave River with the German Empire and Austria-Hungary, and he was awarded several medals for bravery and his achievements. In 1933 he was made a Lieutenant-Colonel, promoted to Colonel in 1938, and to Brigadier-General in 1941 during World War II. Carboni was given command of the Italian 12th Infantry Division in Libya and fought at the Ajdabiya Line campaign of 1942, where he was killed when a Royal Air Force plane strafed his command bunker during a bombing run.